Aylien News API alternative

The call, before and after

# Before: aylien_news_api, the official Python client
configuration.api_key['X-AYLIEN-NewsAPI-Application-ID'] = APP_ID
configuration.api_key['X-AYLIEN-NewsAPI-Application-Key'] = APP_KEY
stories = api_instance.list_stories(
    title='startup', published_at_start='NOW-7DAYS', published_at_end='NOW',
    language=['en'], sort_by='published_at', per_page=10)

# After: SpecStream
curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v2/everything \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -d qInTitle=startup -d from=2026-11-05 -d language=en \
  -d sortBy=publishedAt -d pageSize=10

from and to take dates, so Aylien's NOW-7DAYS becomes the date seven days back, computed in your code.

The story body, read live

Aylien returned the body of each story. On SpecStream, send the url of each article to the Extract API: up to 20 pages a call, read live, as Markdown or plain text, at $0.80 per 1,000 pages. A page that gives no text is not charged.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["<the article url>"], "format": "text"}'

Companies, people and amounts as rows

Aylien attached entities and categories to each story. Deep Search goes further for the job those fields served: describe the stories you need and the facts to bring back, such as the company, the amount and the date, and every match comes back as a structured row at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value.

One price a call, no plan

Every news search of up to 10 stories costs $0.001, each started block of 10 more adds $0.0012, and there is no plan to renew. A busy call gets 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing. Credit you buy never expires.

The most accurate web search API, in about one second

On SimpleQA Verified the SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions, 978 of them correct. On WideSearch it scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

News searches run the fast search. Measured on production on November 9, 2026, its median was 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, and it answered 718 of 720. There is no limit per key and no daily limit.

Other news calls on the same key

If part of your stack already speaks another news API, the same key answers it in that API's own JSON: NewsAPI.org, GNews and Bing News v7, each at $0.001 a search.

NewsAPI.ai

A news API sold by plan: plans start at $90 a month, and the free tier gives 2,000 tokens. SpecStream has no plan and charges $0.001 a search, with $10 of credit to start.

Webz.io

A news and web data feed that says it handles over 3.5 million articles a day in more than 170 languages from 300,000 sources. Its Aylien post publishes no price and ends on a call with its experts. SpecStream prices every call on its pricing page: $1 per 1,000 news searches.

NewsAPI.org

Its Business plan includes 250,000 requests per month, and its free Developer plan has 100 requests per day and cannot be used in a staging or production environment. SpecStream answers NewsAPI.org's own call, the one this page maps Aylien to, at $1 per 1,000 searches.